Friends Center for Children provides early childhood care and education for children ages three months to five years. Our year-round, full time program offers a child-centered learning experience, values-based curriculum and a community of care that includes skilled and dedicated educators, family participation, and a comprehensive emotional well-being program.
Friends Center for Children provides early childhood care and education for children ages three months to five years. Our year-round, full time program offers a child-centered learning experience, values-based curriculum and a community of care that includes skilled and dedicated educators, family participation, and a comprehensive emotional well-being program.
Friends Center for Children provides early childhood care and education for children ages three months to five years. Our year-round, full time program offers a child-centered learning experience, values-based curriculum and a community of care that includes skilled and dedicated educators, family participation, and a comprehensive emotional well-being program.
Friends Center for Children provides early childhood care and education for children ages three months to five years. Our year-round, full time program offers a child-centered learning experience, values-based curriculum and a community of care that includes skilled and dedicated educators, family participation, and a comprehensive emotional well-being program.
Friends Center for Children provides early childhood care and education for children ages three months to five years. Our year-round, full time program offers a child-centered learning experience, values-based curriculum and a community of care that includes skilled and dedicated educators, family participation, and a comprehensive emotional well-being program.
We know that high-quality early childhood education makes a critical difference in a child’s later learning and life outcomes; and we believe that every child should have the opportunity to access this kind of care. In New Haven the need for affordable quality early childhood education for infants and toddlers is acute. Friends Center, which provides this high quality care and learning, is determined to expand its program. We’re opening new centers throughout the city that offer our child-centered curriculum rooted in Quaker values, supported by a comprehensive emotional wellbeing program, and made accessible with sliding scale tuition.
Long before the pandemic struck, Friends Center for Children had been wrestling with the issue of inadequate compensation for infant and preschool teachers. One potential solution, a Friends Center Teacher Housing Initiative, captured the attention of two long-time FCfC supporters…
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This past year, events in our nation forced us all to examine our stance in new and challenging ways. During these trying times, Friends Center is committed to standing fast to our mission: educate children, empower families, inspire teachers, engage community, embrace diversity.
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Dear members of our Friends Center Community, How do we give a name to this moment that grips our awareness, causes deep pain and stifles our breath? Recent appalling, grievous deaths of black and brown countrymen and women follow 400 years of innumerable systematic racial injustices, as well as religious and gender identity persecutions. “I […]
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Dear community, We invite you to enjoy the 9th edition of our weekly blog/letter (nine weeks…wow!). In this blog you will find some fun podcasts and videos that are geared toward young children, inspiring educational articles, helpful resources for you and your family, a letter from our EWBC Team, and an encouraging call to just…breathe. […]
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Dear Community, We hope that this post finds you healthy, safe and well. We realize the incredible strain that social distancing is putting each of us, individually and collectively. Whether you are out on the front lines, balancing work and family responsibilities from home, are currently out of work, or are simply just trying to […]
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Dear Community, We are coming to the end of our seventh week in collective “quarantine”, and find that we are needing one another more than ever. As the ties that bind us to one another continue to stretch, we work even more diligently to mend and repair the frays, in hopes that we will emerge […]
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Dear community, We hope that you continue to be healthy, safe and well. As we continue to experience distance, from one another, our routines, our communities, we hope that, more than anything, you are continuing to experience your worth. You are so loved and missed. “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable […]
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In our week five blog, please find information and links for resources including: free science experiments, Clifford Beers Clinic COVID Compassion Line, mindfulness activity cards, and information on cultivating the Quaker value of COMMUNITY.
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In our week four blog, please find pdfs with activities for children and adults (including Week of the Young Child Daily Themes), awareness resources, mindfulness moments (such as “going on a mindfulness safari”), and information on emotional wellbeing, specifically on cultivating the Quaker value of EQUALITY.
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In our week three blog, please find activities for children and adults awareness resources (including Five Steps to Mindfulness), and information on emotional wellbeing, specifically on cultivating the Quaker value of INTEGRITY.
Read MoreAt Friends Center, we feel that one of the best ways to get to know our program and its impact is through the words and experiences of our community: our partners, supporters, families, teachers and friends.
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